LONGECITY

It's like something sucked directly from my subconscious. I swear I've had dreams exactly like that. I kid you not.

One of the coolest (and most bizarre) transhumanist related videos I have seen.


It is a fantastically profound CG animation. A fantastically unsettling, beautiful and disturbing video.... "a visual account of desires misplaced and identities fractured by our technological extension into the future."

I loved that transhumanist video...


Skeptic Magazine's founder, on why people believe weird things
http://www.videosift...ve-Weird-Things

That man has got his shit together! Nice find jdog.

That Michael Shermer talk is really, really good. Highly recommended.

I love Michael Shermer. In addition to that one, there are some other good ones of him floating around. He spoke at Beyond Belief 2006 (along with Dawkins, Sam Harris, Neil Degrasse Tyson, and a whole host of others) Here is the one where he spoke (one of the ones anyway, I believe he spoke more than once):
http://video.google......duration:long
(Skip to about 1:27:45 or so to see only his talk, which luckily you can do in Google vids)
Here are the other Beyond Belief lectures as well, which have some really good ones in them.


Also, Ted Talks in general (which is what the one jdog linked to) have lots of interesting ones:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks
(I would recommend browsing through some of the older ones, they have had tons of cool people do talks)

Also, if you really like Shermer, there is a whole lot of links to media (both audio and video) with him in it on here:
http://www.reitstoen.com/shermer.php

"Battle of the Brains" from the BBC. (the full episode) They are testing different people from different professions, seeing which are more "intelligent", and discussing whether IQ tests are accurate in determining intelligence. Near the end they discuss some aspects of intelligence as it relates to longevity.

http://video.google....702937444&hl=en

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Dennett has actually done 2 of them. Both pretty good:
http://www.ted.com/i...alks/view/id/94
http://www.ted.com/i...lks/view/id/102

The first of which (and the same one you linked to) he is responding to Rick Warren. (author of Purpose Driven Life) Here is his TED:
http://www.ted.com/i...alks/view/id/71

I don't know a lot about TED, but what the heck is Rick Warren doing preaching there?! Hello!! What kind-of new and exciting ideas is he spreading?

I think this is true. Luckily the skeptics of religion (Dennett, Shermer, Dawkins, and even people like Church of England vicar Rev. Tom Honey who denounces a "personal god") outnumber the proponents. I suppose they felt they needed to at least pay lip service to the conservative Christians? (Dennett tore him apart anyway, in my opinion. I am glad he went last.) For the most part, TED is a marketplace for ideas. I have watched some really good lectures on there over the past month or so on art, technology, science, the environment, and some other things. Personally, I have learned something from just about every one I click on and watch.

Couple Old McDonald's Ads.

The first ever McDonald's commercial with Ronald McDonald:



Another one that is even creepier:

There's a dance company based in the US called Pilobolus (named after the bacteria). They did an amazing performance for TED couple of years back called Symbiosis Apparently all their productions are derived from biology...Watch and enjoy!

Pulp Fiction, with puppets:
http://www.idkwtf.co...os/pulp-muppets

Cow does Matrix move and kicks guy/knocks him over:
http://www.break.com...ks-guy-out.html

I saw this TV commercial and thought it was really cute/funny/clever... (sorry, but you might have to wait through a commercial to watch this commercial )

Lucky Rabbit's Foot

Cosmos: The universe represented as one year.



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The 'universe represented as one year' should make us greatly appreciate that we are living in this millisecond (21st century).

Below:
An unusual way to park a car (don't try to read the text, just click on the numbers 1,2,3,4,5,6,7).

http://www.balkanweb...kina/makina.htm

those photos may be gone in a day or so; therefore I may delete or change this part of my post afterwards.

Break dance fighting vs. 3 year old (scary):



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It does not take long for you to learn that a cow can do that if you are a rancher. Luckily, I never had the experience, because I was forewarned from a young age.

May not be PC for some:

do yourself a favor and don't watch this

That is terrible.

Someone should arrest that guy for memetic terrorism.

Listening to that commercial on repeat for eternity would conform to my definition of hell.

Unedited "Celebrity Fit Club" ...

How to smoke a joint (from the 1978 movie "Taking Off"):

10 year old boy and 6 year old girl rock out to Metallica's "Sad But True"

Never drink Ipecac (Note: Not for those that can't handle seeing others vomit):

The Facts of Life (I learned more in 2 and a half minutes from this video than any other 2 and a half minutes of my entire life, everyone should watch this):

did you know that 37.2% of all statitics are made up on the spot

Did you know that 71% of your mom was a prostitute?